If Congress makes good on its promise to repeal parts of Obamacare, by 2019 an estimate 2.55 million Texans would no longer have coverage, resulting in greater financial pressure on local governments, healthcare providers and the insured, according to a new public health study.

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Saturday is the opening of the second part of the divided season on ducks in the South Zone, which includes all of the coastal and adjoining counties. It could not come at a better time as conditions have changed dramatically from two weeks ago when the first part of the season closed.

It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new course for its Galveston race, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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Today, marks a century since the passing of Nicholas Joseph Clayton, the premier architect of historic Galveston. The island wouldn't be the place it is without his legacy of talent which continues to influence building design today.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

I rather doubt that rebuilding violates the U.S. Constitution, but I do find it odd that the memory of what the Public Housing situation in Galveston was like before Ike has been totally forgotten, or is it being purposely overlooked? It has only been 6 years since Ike hit, and in that short period of time, has everyone forgotten what is was like in the areas around the PH? It was not a positive thing. Does no one remember the people hanging out on the streets corners and stop signs, both men and women, drinking their 40’s and trying to sell … whatever …. The garbage that always littered the streets and floated around the rundown units, which always appeared unkept and in need of some kind of repair? It was certainly not the best of situations, but the GHA allowed it all those years. They never stepped in to clean up the appearance or the residents’ behaviors. So now the GHA and HUD are going to add all these new units for GHA to manage. I can just imagine what it will be like in another 6 years, will the cycle continue? History does have a way of repeating itself.

You forgot that PH was there before the STORM, I may not be able to type as good as you and the others. but i know How to tell the truth and not lie . Before the storm none of you cared about how the PH was doing. OUT OF SITE OUT OF MIND.

Now you all wants to say what is to be built on land that was there for PH before Ike. Stop acting as if there are no bad white people.. It is some good in all of us BLACK/ BROWN/ White. [sad][sad]